Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 03:21:50 -0800 From: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Filesystem names with non-alphanum characters? Message-ID: <20030128032150.B45888@FreeBSD.org>
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Does anyone have a FreeBSD filesystem with a VFS type name which
contains a space? Any other characters that are not alphanumeric?
fsck currently has a hack to look for fsck_foo_bar for the vfstype
"foo bar", but does not handle other things, and I am not sure if
there is a use for this special case at all, or if there is if we
should handle a larger set of transposition. Even the one case I
thought maybe would exist ("4.2 ufs" or "4.2BSD ufs") does not, and
the analogue to it ("4.2bsd") has no space, and there is no fsck to
support that with a space ("fsck_4.2_bsd").
Anyone with input on this would be very welcome to speak up. We've
had it since we got this stuff from NetBSD, sorta. It appears to be
something Adrian added when converting it to our VFS system, so I'm
willing to write off that it was a "this is a good idea" change, since
our VFS system might not guarantee no spaces, but if it isn't something
useful, then it might be a good idea to remove it, as we certainly
don't actually try to make a name we can use, we just handle one small
case.
If nothing comes inre this, I may try to borrow phk's Danish axe for
application to this code, otherwise I will try to make it more general
purpose.
Thanx,
juli.
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